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After dinner (ciorba and bread), I headed back to my room, as tomorrow I am taking the train for the day to Sighisoara (siggy-schwara), a medieval town about 2 hours from Brasov. It's supposed to be super cute, so I'm pretty excited. As I said, today was a fantastic day, and it was cool being at Rasnov when it was a bit foggy outside. It definitely added to that Transylvania mystique, or the "land beyond the forest."

... come from conditions that haven’t been nearly as nice as the bear sanctuary. Tiny little “zoos” in concrete cages, chained up and muzzled, left to die out the back of the woods somewhere, taken from people who had trained them to “dance” be making them walk on hot coals yadda yadda. Not such a good time of it. So they’re all in bear heaven at the sanctuary – which is great as bears ...

... escu; we toured the Palace of Parliament; we took photographs of many buildings in the vicinity of Calea Victoriei, Piata Victoriei (Victory Square), Piata Revolutiei (Revolution Square) and Piata Unitii (Union Square); we walked the area between Piata Universitatii (University Square) and Piata Romana (Romanian Square) near the Inter-Continental Hotel where western journalists viewed some of the fiercest fighting that took place during the 1989 revolution and where at least ...

... because it kept falling down, they had to sacrifice the chiefs wife and build her inside the walls of the monestary, and then so the builders could not rebuild another or a better monestary, they were left stranded on the roof top where they fell to their deaths. My next stop was Bucharest, only 2 hours away via the mega 130km/h highway where I got to experience ...